Publisher Feature
KesselsKramer Publishing
kesselskramerpublishing.com
It could be argued that in publishing taking risks is core to ones own survival. In an industry like that of photography books, where innovation, craft, and tight concept reign supreme, few companies dive headlong into the unknown with the intention of truly challenging their readers. What is so very often a conservative or timid supportive stance, one where the artist and his or her vision is primary fodder for originality, Amsterdam based publishing house KesselsKramer seem to be comfortable standing alone with risky projects.
from: The Face of the Century
from: In Almost Every Picture 1
Molded out of the identical boundary smashing independent communications agency of the same name, KesselsKramer is a publisher who "sees each new book as a surprise or new incarnation that always challenges and questions the reader as well as the publisher." With a solid catalog of titles such as Useful Photography (num. 1 - 7; plus a war special) and the equally successful In Almost Every Picture (num. 1 - 5), both of which present the reader with vernacular photography and its surprising relevance within our lives; as well as project/human experiments like The Face of the Century, Hot or Not, and Face Moroccans, it is easy to see how KesselsKramer stays true to its ethos of pushing the reader to unexpected territories.
from: Hot or Not
from: Useful Photography 001
Perhaps the best example of a KesselsKramer publication is their recent enigmatic book Anonymous. Collected, edited and designed by Ewoudt Boonstra (with text by Christian Bunyan), Anonymous asks the reader how our own bodies struggle to demonstrate emotion through photography.
from: Anonymous
from: Anonymous
Photographic meaning, which is primarily obtained through facial expression, is obliterated by way of scratches, camera flash, markers, etc. Images that once existed to document happy or playful moments (graduations, weddings, even erotic photography) are transformed into an all encompassing army of headless zombies, replacing figure as subject, with figure as environment.
from: Anonymous
from: Anonymous
To purchase books by KesselsKramer, or to view their full catalog please visit their website at: kesselskramerpublishing.com
